Ankarede Christmas market

This weekend has been great! 

My husband plays country music and his band Kentucky gave a Christmas concert in Ankarede chapel.

To you abroad...Ankarede is a small place in the northwest of Jämtland...near the Norwegian border. 

Well... At the market I bought bread 

and some traditional food for Christmas.

Then... consert at church....Yes, I liked it..it was a nice atmosphere ..and the church beautiful.

A weekend without seewing...but a lot of fun with friends.. good food..music..and dance in the evening.

And...I did talk to a quilter from Norway..she showed some patchwork at the market place...

Sorry, no photo!

Now...I have some decorating to do....and light the first candle of Advent.

                                                                Margreth

A day in November

I woke up early this morning, thinking...wonder if it's a day meant for sewing?
Jaasper.......hard to get up!
Looking out....:)... it's really a beautiful, foggy, freezing cold morning.
Trees are bowing covered with snow chrystals.
Definitely a day to cozy up indoors!  YES!
I mean... I have a lot of catching up to do!

Morning coffee..and off to the studio...boy.. does I suddenly feel alert!
But..first I have to check my blogg out....any coments?

Then...I hope I can finish " Let's dance" today. There is a lot of quilting to be done.
Machine quilting hasn't been a favorit of mine...I think it has been difficult to get a good result...
.....thread got stuck and the stitches became uneven...:(
 
But...now I kind of love it!!! I feel that I can work freely and make the surface
lively with different stitches, treads and designs. It's suddenly fun!...and I have a lot more to explore and learn.
 
Well....lunch...sewing....coffee...sewing....husband shows up..coffee? ...have no time!
 
 
                                                  The busy one get rewarded!
 
 
 

 
 
 
                   Typically enough...it's a bad photo...you can't see my quilting...this dark country!
                
 
                                                                 Here's a glimpse of it!
 
 

                                                                                                                               Hugs!  Margreth

Quiltmeeting!

Hi! It 's a fantastic winterday, cold and glittering snow. Me and my husband took a long walk...with the camera of course...and look at this ramshackel barn. Bending over..soon falling apart..charming and melancholy.
Is it going to manage over the winter?

QUILTMEETING!
Isn't it fantastic when over a houndred women with fabrics and seewingmashines meet. All because of their love for quilts. They talk... a lot, look at quilts, buy fabrics, sew and find inspiration.

I like it! :)

The quilt with circles is made by Sylvi Nilsson. A great work!

And.. what's up in the studio?

Not much!

I found out that I wasn't happy with the result of my Garden journal!

I ripped it partly and made one more block.

Now I like the size of it!

Otherwise I try to find inspiration by looking in books...shapes..design and colors!

And....yes I have a lot of quilting to do! :) Happy me!

                                                                                                                      Hugs! Margreth

A great week!

There has been a great week.....I enjoyed every minute of it. We went to Uppsala to visit our children who all showed up at our daughter Elins place. We hadn't met all together since june!!!! JUNE!.... Well we had a lovely time together. YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF OUR LIFE!

THEN.....sewing....exercising......reading.....and all that makes life feel gooooooood!

YES! ......A FINISH......¨A HOUSWIFES DREAM¨
I started this one over a year ago...after an invitation to an exhibition at Rööhska designmuseum in Göteborg.
But....new ideas took over and this quilt....in the pile of UFOs.

I used filmstars and a calander from 1958..my year of birth.... transfering pictures to fabric.

I thougt about a houswife loosing herself dreaming about filmstars... a glamouros life...far from cleaning and cooking. Filmstars all over the table!










                                                                    SOME DETAILS!
                     I wanted the book and filmstars to pop out from the design...did I manage?

There is more hard work going on in the studio....UFOs......WISPs.....
¨ LET'S DANCE¨ is progressing.....embrodering makes the finishing touch!..... I hope!?
I always feel that the last leg of the quilt is the hardest part to do!

                                                                                                                              See you! // Margreth

Here I am!

I'm kind of busy.... working, training and prepareing the garden and the house for the winter.
In the studio there are quilts to be finished and new one to be designed.
Maybe something for Christmas? Hmmm...Or?
I looooong for fall holiday!

Here's a glimps of a small quilt called "A housewifes dream "

I named it befor seewing......
Do you recognice the filmstars?
Another one to be finished.....puuuh!

This is FUN!!
 

I'm happy to have my quilt "Red cottages" in Rikstäckets (Swedish Quilt Association) calendar 2011.

April..spring...wow!

Speaking of spring!

Isn't this a dream?  Soon winter.... In our winter garden there are lemons and figs!!!!
I hope they will ripe in time? I'm not sure!
They desperatelly need sun!

See you!  Margreth

Roundabout dogs

Oh...where did this week go? Sometimes time flies faster than my quiltangel and I've not been in the studio for several days. But...I bought fabrics to four quilts to be bound!
                                               FOUR.....QUILTS to finish. PUUUH..

Today I have been washing windows...befor snow comes! Not so fun.....so I thought about funnier things climbing to reach my high windows.......quilts and design ideas.

I remeber some years ago when artists were making dogs to decorate roundabouts. I saw a feature on tv....
.....thinking.....why not sew dogs?  Sooo.. here you go!

                                                                       SOME DETAILS!

                                                                 Yes..it's a Picasso!!!!

In that time we had been to Barcelona visiting our daugter....and Picasso museum. A fantastic exhibition....
and of course.....more inspiration. The dog got a picture..a Picasso dog!

 I made some other stuff too...show you later on! Travelling is a very good idea when you need inspiration!

                                                                                                              TAKE CARE! // Margreth

Top finished!

I catch a cold and have been home from work for a couple of days!
Boooooring.....but today I finished the Garden Journal top. I like the dull colors...fall colors.
It was so fun that I nearly forgot my sore throat and red nose!
Quilting is like medicin!

Typically enough the weather is fantastic, sunny,warm and...just lovely.
Soooo....... I sneeked out and took a photo of our new build house in the soft sunny light.
I can't belive it....it's halv a year since we moved in!
Time flies...you better try to enjoy life every day!

 Margreth

Let's dance!

There has been a lot of thinking  done this weekend! How to complete the design of my quilt with chairs?
I had some decisions to make! Should I make some kind of squares, log cabins or "free cutting" blocks to finish the quilt? For me it's important to maintain a balance between fabrics, colors and design.
I finally decided " free cutting" blocks! Thats my way!!! Fun and exciting!
When the quilt, several hours later, hang on the wall I suddenly realized that the chairs looked as they were dancing!

So....here's LET'S DANCE!

Now......I have to work on border or not? How to make the quilt sparkle...ad freehand designs...embellishment, quilting design and..........? OH.....it's a very inspirational and exciting work I have in front of me!

GO FOR IT!  Margreth